Welsh Gold for Wedding Rings
From ancient times, Wales has seen gold mining. The early Welsh nobility are said to have worn jewellery made with the gold from their land. However, there hasn’t been enough gold to keep it going as a thriving gold industry. The earliest Welsh gold mine in fact has become a tourist attraction though there seems to have been mining done there as early as 1000 years ago. There are two areas where the gold mining operation was concentrated. In the north, it was the region that lies between Snowdonia and Barmouth and in the south, which is where the Roman mining took place, it is situated at Dolaucothi in Carmarthenshire and this is the earliest known gold mine.
There is gold in the Welsh hills but the sad fact is that it costs three times as much to mine gold in Wales as it does in Australia or South Africa and that makes the whole operation not viable. It has a great degree of purity though - add the historical aspect to that and you’ll see why the British royal family has their wedding rings fashioned from this gold. For generations, this has been a tradition and though the mines might just become a fact of history, the gold lives on – in the best of company.
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